Swapna, from Crafts and Cooking, has brightened my January by bestowing the Kreative Blogger Award upon my little blog! Thank you Swapna! Please visit her blog, she has unique recipes, and interesting information and pictures about her life and family in India!

Rules for accepting this award are as follows ....

1) thank the person giving the award

2)Copy award to your blog

3)Place a link to their blog

4)Name 7 things people don't know about you...

5)Nominate 7 bloggers

6)Place a link to those bloggers

7) Leave a comment on the blog letting them know about the awards.

7 things people don't know about me

1. I have been raising children for almost 33 years! My eldest child is almost 33, my youngest is almost 12! ( Yes I started early at 18, and I am now 51!)
2. I am a self taught jewelry designer. I have learned by reading books, and trial and error.
3.I worked in retail ( womens fashion) for 12 years
4.I have had the same 6 friends (3 couples), for the last 30 years!
5.I love to travel, and I could easily do it full time
6.I also love to paint, although my jewelry takes up most of my free time now.
7. I love to collect handmade pottery on my travels, and have a small collection of pottery with dragonfly motifs.
I picked a selection of old faves and new reads to nominate for this award.


1.Musings - fabulous jewelry by Laura Staley

2.Corner of Cats Mind-wonderful photos (lots of eye candy on her blog!), posts on her family, her cat and life in Saskatchewan, Canada.

3.Bei Mondi- Visit USA jewelry designer, Leslies blog where she posts on her world and her unique copper designs.

4.Narrative Jewelry- From France, with more fabulous jewelry created with polymer clay, and copper. Her blog also features other wonderful artists as well.

5.Nfall2art design studio- Nancys blog is full of amazing art! This talented lady knits, paints and makes lovely note cards
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6.NanjoDogz- This Nancy makes adorable hand sculpted polymer clay dogs!


7.Backyard Beads- Doreen, is a California artist, who designs jewelry which features her own polymer clay beads.

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Great Sales and an award from the Queen!

This weekends, art and craft show and sale was another success, I met some fabulous artists at the venue, and had a great time meeting new clients and selling my jewels! I am glad the seasons shows are all over for now, as I am exhausted, and my housework has been neglected over the past couple of weeks. I thank all my readers for your wonderful words of support and from my last post, it is so nice to have such wonderful friends in the bloggy world! I also received the One Lovely Blog Award from the Queen Speaks. The Queen, has a very entertaining blog, packed with humor, which often sends me laughing. Her posts on family and home life with her teenagers always crack me up! The Queen blogs on crafting, current topics, and life in general. She has a real mixed bag of topics on her blog, and is always a good read.
Here are the rules:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

S0, here are the blogs that I have discovered within the last several months, unfortunately there are not 15 that I can say are newly discovered, as I have many older faves that I regularly visit, and there is only so much time in a day! However, here are my 5 newest faves. These are blogs that I now regularly visit and I enjoy them all immensely! In no particular order:

Wii Mommies
(Yes I have a Wii fit that I work out to regularly to, I especially enjoy Golds Gym Cardio Workout) These ladies have fitness and nutrition tips, and real life stories on their struggles with weight loss.

WillOaks Studio
A wonderful jewelry designer, who is also an amazing photographer. Lots of lovely eye candy on this blog!

Duck and Wheel with String
Lins blog is packed full of humor...if you need a good laugh...or even sometimes a good cry, you will always get a great read on her blog! She is one powerful, emotional and talented writer. She also has a very soft side to her as well, as seen in her posts on her backyard froggy pond.

Sweet Bead Studio
Cindy is another talented jewelry designer, and busy mom of four boys, blogging on her jewelry designs and family life. Her beautiful blog is always a joy to visit!

Accent the Party- Party Blog
If you need decor ideas, and party favors for any type of party, celebration or wedding, this is a must to check out. Loads of great info and great pictures on this blog!
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Thank you!

I just wanted to say thank you to all my friends who left comments for me in my last post regarding my daughters move to Australia! Your wonderful comments meant a lot to me, as the last few days have been difficult. Yes there have been many tears, some shed in private, so that no one could see me cry, and of course I sobbed my heart out at the airport when she left on Friday. She called me Sunday evening, to let me know that she had made it to Brisbane safely, which made me feel a little better. I also hope that all of my American friends had a super July 4th holiday weekend!

The lovely Nicole, at Beadwright, felt I needed cheering up and awarded me the "One Lovely Blog Award". To accept this award I must nominate another 7 blogs, so here are my nominees:

Duck and Wheel with String

Splitrock Ranch

Sand and Sea Designs

Sweet Bead Studio

Sundown bead Designs Rhetoric
KS Jewellery Designs
Crafts and Cooking


Tag you're it!

I was also tagged by my furry friends at Beaded Tail, in a game in which I am to post the 6th picture in the 6th folder, of my photos. So here is the photo, which is actually a favorite secret spot of mine, located about a 15 minute drive from my home. It is along the banks of the Elbow river, in a wonderful wilderness area,called Kananaskis Country. I named this spot Mystic Canyon. It is a fantastic place to go to relax and reflect on life and nature.
I am tagging the following friends to play this game.
Please feel free to play along or not..you are not obligated,it's just a bit of fun.

A Rose by Name
Lenox knits

Storybeader

Sweetwater Designs
ChatElaine Jewellery
Cinnamon Spice and everything Nice

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